Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki description and photos - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki description and photos - Russia - Moscow: Moscow. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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In the restoration of this temple in the 90s of the last century, completely different people played an important role: the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, as well as famous rock musicians who were among the parishioners of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother of God in Putinki. Luzhkov's personal order accelerated the course of restoration work, and musicians Boris Grebenshchikov and Alexander Lipnitsky handed over to the temple many icons.

The first church on the site of the Assumption Church in Uspensky Lane was built in the 16th century. The name of the area - Putinki - comes from the name of the country palace of the Moscow prince Vasily the Third. The palace itself was called Travel, and the entrances to it were crooked, "confused." The church was first mentioned in documents in the 1920s, and the building was built even earlier. The main shrine of the temple of that time was considered the icon "Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos", which streamed myrrh.

In the second half of the 17th century, the church was rebuilt in stone, a few years later, towards the end of the century, the Nikolsky side-chapel was added to it. and the bell tower appeared only after the middle of the 18th century.

Several years after the October Revolution of 1917, the church was closed, its values were removed, and the upper part of the main building and the bell tower were demolished. The house, fenced off from the inside and adapted for housing, over time was overgrown with extensions that more and more hid the original appearance of the building. Part of the church land was also seized and transferred to the embassy of the Republic of Benin.

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